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Essay Archive - 1984
1984
George Orwell is the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, a British writer with
political conscience. He was born in India but educated in England at
Eton College. He served the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to
1927. In sick health, he returned to Europe to live in poverty as a
struggling writer. Orwell joined the Republican forces in the Spanish civil
war, and wrote a chilling account of this experience. He went on to write
many books, mostly autobiographical, and achieved successes as a brilliant
writer.
2. Synopsis
The novel takes place in a theoretical and fictional dystopian totalitarian
society. The story begins in London on A....
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